The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-04-21
The Sunday Schools.
FOR NEXT SUNDAY.

Gen. AZ. 1-12
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and
said, Ny father and my brethren, and their
f1oclzs, and their herds, and all that they have,
are come out of the land of Canaan; and, be-
hold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 And he took some Of his brethren, even five
men, and presented hem unto Pharaoh.
5. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What
is your occupation? And they said unto Pha-
raoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to
sojourn in the land come; for thy SER
wants have no pasture for their 1ocks; for lhe
the famine is sore in the land of Canaan; now
therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell
in the land OF Goshen.
8 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father AMI thy brethren come unto
thee;
The land of Egypt is befole thee; in the best
of the land make thy father and brethren to
dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell;
and it thou knowest any men of activity among
them, then make them rulers over my cattle
And Joseph brought in Jacob his father,
and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed
Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art
thou?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days OF
the years of my pilgrimage hundred and
thirty years; few and evil have the days of the
years of my life been, aud have not attained
unto the days of the years of the life of my ia
theirs in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out
from before Pharaoh.
IL And Joseph placed his father and his breth-
rem, and gave them possession in the land of
Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of
Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
II And Joseph nourished his father, and his
brethren, and all his fathers household, with
bread, according to their families.
GOLDEN TExr.-Honor thy father and moth
er; which is the first commandment with
promise.-Eph. 6. 2.
TIME.-17O6 B. C. Same as last lesson, but la
ter in the year.
PLACE.-The land of Goshen.
CONNECTING LINK. brothers have
fulfilled their mission. Israel and all his de-
pendents have come to Egypt, and are settled
in Goshen. The parted father and son have
met. And now it remains only to present them
to the monarch.
The time has come at last for the consumma-
tion of the great divine plan through the eXpe-
rience of Joseph In SO far as this worlds exper-
ience is concerned. Away back yonder the
dreaming boy-if we not willing to call him
Prophet-gave the first evidences of the won
derfuI career of usefulness which Law before
hin, like most of the Instruments used in fur
therins the divine plans. or teaching divine
wisdom and providence. Joseph had MANY tri-
ais and some dangers. But he was equal to
them all, sustained as he was by divine grace,
and watched over and protected by divine
power.
To the mortal eyes of his kinsmen, Joseph
was lost, having been sold away, bondsman
n a distant ali-SaeiOU of
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the moment when he shouId he enabled to
prove to his. brethren that. instead of being
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the wisdom OF the all-Wlse one, the family OF
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torted. The good results to the people of Jacob
were not given as a reward for their wicked
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but was of those beautiful instances in
which God uses the wicked actions of men TO
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